It's apparently one of the most haunted houses not just in Hull but around the world.

With talk of children appearing from within the walls and women being strangled with their scarves inside, 39 De Grey Street is said to be a hive of paranormal activity.

Located just off Beverley Road, there has been talk of chairs moving, objects flying through the air and candles blowing themselves out. Tales have been told by mediums of the house being a former foster home, with 15 to 20 child spirits and the adult carers who allegedly killed them wandering the corridors.

But what's it like living in a hive of alleged haunted activity?

The property in De Grey Street is now empty and has laid dormant since 2007, but was previously occupied by Andy Yates.

Mr Yates has decorated the home as to how it was before the 'hauntings' began (Image: Hull Live)

The wheelie bin cleaner, aged 53, has owned the seven bedroom terrace for more than 20 years but now opens it to paranormal investigators as he is too scared to live there.

Mr Yates says he could only bear to live in the house for eight years, and had to move out due to terrifying goings on that he was unable to explain.

Despite not believing in anything supernatural before he experienced paranormal activity in the home, Mr Yates now says he is a fully fledged believer in the spirit world.

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"Every time I come back to the house, I remember the place being my home, and I get uncomfortable thinking back to what happened to me in here," he said.

"I always get headaches here, and a feeling of sadness and upset consumes me.

"It's weird having people coming in and out of the house for psychic evenings, but they're something that I started in order to pay the mortgage as I couldn't live here anymore after everything that went on and I couldn't rent the place out either.

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"More than four families tried to move in but none could stay more than a night because their kids were screaming in their rooms overnight, and some people couldn't return after measuring the house up for furniture.

"I had to give them all their bonds back and work out what to do with the place.

"Even though I'm cautious when I return, I’m also intrigued and sense a lot of stuff as the more you get involved, the more in tune you get.

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"I had a cat and it would jump off my knee and and the hair was up on its neck. It seemed as if it was looking at things, but when I looked, nothing was there.

"I felt scared living here and realised that something really sinister was happening when I came downstairs to the kitchen one morning and saw steak knives balanced across the top of plates in the drying rack.

Haunted dolls are present in the property according to Mr Yates (Image: Hull Live)

"I thought that if something can move a knife, then there was definitely some force working against me in my house. It was most disconcerting.

"I was the biggest sceptic when moved in and thought people were crazy to talk of ghosts, but I lived through it for eight years".

The most terrifying happening for Mr Yates was when he says he saw the ghostly apparition of a seven-year-old girl at the bottom of his bed in the middle of the night.

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"I was asleep in bed but work up about 3am to see something at the bottom of my bed," said Mr Yates.

"I thought that it must be a burglar that had got into my house, but when I looked closer I thought that it was a girl stood there that looked hazy and was around seven-years-old.

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"I thought I must be dreaming so I rubbed my eyes and pinched myself, and saw that it was a ghost.

"She had tears in her eyes and she seemed to be pleading for help - at least 20 minutes must have gone by with her being there, and I had no idea what to do and was just laid motionless.

"I had a baseball bat by my bed and waggled it at the apparition to try and make it go away, and it then faded into fireplace and disappeared."

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The final straw for Mr Yates was when his partner at the time moved into 39 De Grey Street with him, and fell pregnant.

The spooky activities continued to happen in the home and Mr Yates says they decided to leave for the safety of their unborn child. He has never returned to live there since.

"I used to get headaches all the time when I lived in the house, and still get them when return - it's a sad place and a sad feeling I get coming here," said Mr Yates.

"My partner at the time also started to get affected when she moved in during the last year I lived in the house - she felt and sensed things and we just couldn't settle.

Camera equipment is set up in the house to monitor activity (Image: Hull Live)

"She fell pregnant when we were living in the house, and the further into her pregnancy she went, things in the house got more active with furniture even being moved and thrown about, and the sheets being pulled up on us in bed."

The so-called spooky house has put Hull on the map internationally, with psychics, mediums, paranormal investigators and those interested in the supernatural making contact with Mr Yates to visit De Grey Street.

Recently, exorcist Mario Tebbenhoff, from Holland, visited the house with his team to investigate but even said it was "one of the most haunted houses" that he'd ever visited.

Mr Yates says he will never live in the property again (Image: Hull Live)

"People from all over the world have got in touch with me about my house," said Mr Yates.

"It's pretty surreal to think that my home in Hull has been seen and visited by so many, and with all the psychic evenings that have been held, I've been able to learn a lot more about the place.

"Mediums that come to the house told me that two adult males and one adult female are dominant malicious spirits in the house, and they are believed to be foster carers of terminally ill children who were brought here to be cared for before they died.

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"But according to the medium, the 15 to 20 child spirits that are present here were abused by their foster carers in the house and are trapped here, with the foster carers all blaming each other for what they did.

"All mediums get this same result, and its too much of coincidence for it not to be right."

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